Ok, so around 20 years ago we were fine with 56k, what do you think we need in another 20 years? Unless you wanna put down new lines every handful of years this is actually a good investment into the future.
I don't think we were ever "fine" with 56k, but I think we reached a good speed with 1Gb/s. It will be more than enough for most households until everything we do will scale up in resolution.
Well, 1gig is still somewhat rare here in Germany. Unless you live in a large city or you are fine with 5G as your line, its basically a far-away dream
- cloud storage, sharing and backup - at 40Mbit a remote site feels like a slow thumb drive where copying a 1GB folder of an image or video project to the cloud takes 5 minutes, at 1Gbit it feels like a modern hard drive where that folder takes 10 seconds and doesn't interrupt your workflow
- high res video streaming (3-4 people in your household streaming at 4K will overload your downlink at 100Mbit)
- high res video conferencing (3-4 people in your household being in zoom calls at the same time will likely overload your uplink at 40Mbit)
Probably the mentioned 25 Gbit/s. At least now nobody needs that at home. I'm not even sure how one would hook up a computer to such a fast connection. certainly not with conventional ethernet.
10G Ethernet at least is not unusual for enthusiast-type stuff, and with the hardcore crowd I wouldn't be surprised to see some 25/40/100G kit - and this is clearly a hardcore enthusiast offering for now. E.g. IMHO doesn't make much sense unless you are hosting stuff at home etc.
